Re: sed - problem with escape charecters in cygwin

[Bob Proulx]

Cullen Davidson <address@hidden> [2002-11-20 07:48:28 -0800]:
> There appears ot be a bug in the sed function that requires the use of 
> two backslashes '\\' to escape characters in the regexp of a command 
> line substitution. The single backslash is simply ignored entirely as far 
> as I can tell. The replacement string does not have this problem, it 
> seems to work normally. Here is an example:
> 
> sed "s!\.properties!\.config!" file.txt

Please try this.  What is the output of this command?

  echo sed "s!\.properties!\.config!" file.txt

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Bob

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